Gould, Chester

(190085), U.S. cartoonist. Chester Gould was born on Nov. 20, 1900, in Pawnee, Okla. He began cartooning while in college and in 1924 began drawing Fillum Fables, comic-strip spoofs of popular movies. In 1931 Gould's creation Dick Tracy, a stern, lean-jawed police detective who was eventually the subject of several films, made his first appearance. The Dick Tracy strip continued for 46 years under Gould's

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